Power Movies For The Guys

For a long time we have used the video store as one of our main ways to access movies. High speed internet access has now made it possible to download movies right off a movie download site. Below, is a sample of some of the movies you can find using movie download sites.

Ruffles of Red Gap: Laughton is amazing as butler triumphed in a Texas Poker game by uncouth however friendly westerner Ruffles and socially ambitious spouse Boland. Za-Su is the spinster he falls in love with. An entirely triumphing movie is born. Harry Leon Wilson’s tale was filmed before in 1918 and 1923, then redid as Lavish Slacks. Cast includes H Leo McCarey, Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles, ZaSu Pitts, Roland Youthful, and Leila Hyams. (92 minutes, 1935)

Night of the Generals: A WW2 whodunit, movie has potential although gets lost in gloomy script, and inanimate behaviors. It is simply a dud. Cast includes Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence, Joanna Pettet, and Christopher Plummer. (148 minutes, 1967)

Across the Pacific: This is a WWII spy film which leads us to Panama as two spies engage in a cat and mouse chase. Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, and Victor Sen Y ung head the cast. (1942 Spy-Drama directed by John Huston)

Strange II1usion: Enthralling however unconvincing melodrama, a B-film update of Hamlet, with teenaged Lydon having questions in regards to slick-talker William who’s wooing his widowed mom Eilers. Normally weird William feels in this low-spending limit quickie. Cast includes James Lydon, Sally Eilers, Warren William, and Regis Toomey. (80 minutes, 1945)

AL Capone: Excellent newer-night gangster biography with Steiger ranting as Scar-faced Capone; excellent aiding cast, bringing back the nostalgia of Cagney-Robinson-Bogart films of the ’30s. Cast includes Pole Steiger, Fay Spain, James Gregory, Martin Balsam, Nehemiah Persoff, and Mervyn Vye. (105 minutes, 1959)

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story: This film is a biography of the life of martial arts superstar, turned actor, Bruce Lee. We follow his life from childhood in Hong Kong, filled with demons, to his exodus to the US, as suggested by his father. In the US he opens a martial arts school, and pursues an acting career.

Alex and The Gypsy: Roaming tale of romance between bail bondsman Lemmon and gypsy Bujold who’s implicated of tried murder. Some fascinating notions lost in the mess of an indecisive film. Cast includes Jack Lemmon, Genevieve Bujold, James Woods, Gino Ardito, Robert Emhardt, and Titos Vandis. (99 minutes, 1976)

Class Action: Jeb Ward is an attorney specializing in class action cases. He is taking the case of a man suing a big auto company for a safety issue, which has had a huge affect on the man’s life since his accident. To spice things up, the defense team will be led by his daughter.

Good Morning Babylon: Two Italian brothers, whose artisan family has conditioned and repaired cathedrals for generations, materialize to America in 1915 and end up performing for D. W. Griffith on his fable film Intolerance. This is a valentine to the early nights of moviemaking, and a declaration in reference to the immortality of the craft Cast includes Vincent Spano, Joaquim De Almeida, Greta Scacchi, Desiree Becker, Charles Dance, Omero Antonutti, and David Brandon. (117 minutes, 1987)

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